The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7405 p731
17 June 2006

Society summary

AGM in Wales to hear about the use of toxic medicines as a means of murder

Pharmacists who attend this year's annual general meeting for members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society resident in Wales will be enlightened by a talk on the use of toxic drugs as instruments of death.

The lecture is entitled “Medical murders!” It will be given by Phil Routledge, professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Wales College of Medicine, who has studied murder cases involving widely prescribed drugs.

This year’s AGM, which takes place on the evening of 5 July, is the last to be organised under the aegis of the Welsh Executive before it is replaced by the new Welsh National Board.

The agenda does not include the usual report of the result of an executive election because of a decision by the Council that the 2005–06 executive should continue in office until the national board is established.


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